tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473567799629497251.post1091339324632156556..comments2011-06-25T08:53:15.424-07:00Comments on jonblog: Grade F for common senseIndiana Jonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13813884455832181804noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473567799629497251.post-41455506520613358402011-06-25T08:53:15.424-07:002011-06-25T08:53:15.424-07:00While your post seems to pose an interesting point...While your post seems to pose an interesting point, it is devalued somewhat when you consider that not all courses are undertaken to create a career opportunity. <br /><br />For example, the history of art is interesting. Learning for learning&#39;s sake isn&#39;t usually a bad thing.<br /><br />Furthermore, the history of art might seemingly be a rather limited end goal of learning, but could lead the student in question in a more general art path. Perhaps the course was taken by a budding art student, who simply wanted to pick up ideas from his historical peers?<br /><br />And while your example of Waste Management and Dance seems rather questionable, I would put forward Politics and Music as being an equally pointless double course, abet one made up of two courses that you would never think of cutting from curriculum. <br /><br />Remember, these things would not result in a hybrid end job (such as a tap dancing bin-man or a rock star MP) but could just be the student having two areas of learning which they wanted to nurture, with only one leading to an employment end goal.<br /><br />Just my 2 cents.glencaversonhttp://glencaverson.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473567799629497251.post-37757534893695734342011-02-21T12:54:55.881-08:002011-02-21T12:54:55.881-08:00Hey Ananth! I would agree that there is a degree o...Hey Ananth! I would agree that there is a degree of subjectivity regarding what classifies as a soft or hard subject (to use oxbridge terminology), however if schools are pressed for cash I would rather have these subjects be pulled first. My friend actually illustrated this point very well when she told me that her school could not find the resources to teach any subjects at Advanced Higher, but yet managed to offer a course in Survival Cookery! You use the term &quot;Drama Club&quot;, perhaps this should be the road we should look down in that we offer subjects such as Drama, Cookery, Media Studies etc as extra curricular activities? Therefore, individuals can still enjoy these subjects and save people the dreariness of assessments etc.Indiana Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13813884455832181804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473567799629497251.post-16249473909664504802011-02-21T12:24:25.254-08:002011-02-21T12:24:25.254-08:00Drama club and media studies sound like perfectly ...Drama club and media studies sound like perfectly sensible ideas that should get funding, but &#39;Equine Psychology&#39; and &#39;Waste Management and Dance&#39;.... why?<br />*sigh* this is a disgrace :p<br />-ananthbalahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12947026688934024082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7473567799629497251.post-63513546782877560362011-02-21T00:27:35.118-08:002011-02-21T00:27:35.118-08:00Bravo, Jon!
Thoroughly enjoyed that tongue in che...Bravo, Jon!<br /><br />Thoroughly enjoyed that tongue in cheek critique of the current system. When you suggest that students are currently partly subsidising the Mickey Mouse courses, I take it that funding currently is pooled and disbursed to all courses arbitrarily within the university. Is that really the case, or there already a compartmentalisation of budgets among the various courses?JBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08325030314649430288noreply@blogger.com